Tokyo

Tokyo's Great Buddha

Not very famous, but really impressive!

Andre Moreira Jun 25, 2014 - 1 min read

<p>Little pond right next to the temple building</p>

<p>Even more beautiful under a clear blue sky!</p>

<p>Omikuji at the entrance of the temple</p>

<p>Messages written on wooden prayer tablets </p>

<p>Little stone statues along a narrow walkway inside the temple area</p>

<p>The Tokugawa Family crest, on a temple gate</p>

Deep inside Tokyo, lies Japan's third largest Buddha of its type, after those in Nara and Kamakura.

Surprisingly not very famous, this Bronze Buddha Statue is 13 meters tall (including the base) and weighs 22 tons! It is located at Jourenji Temple in Akatsuka, Itabashi. In its original location, Nakayado, this temple was visited by the Tokugawa Shoguns, which explains why the Tokugawa Family Crest is on the temple gates.

Nara and Kamakura are surely the main attractions when talking about Great Buddha statues, however the Tokyo representative feels different, maybe because of the holy atmosphere due to its very few visitors.

Andre Moreira @andre.moreira

Born in the Portuguese countryside in 1990, I've been living in Japan since 2012. Not long after coming to Japan, I started writing to Japan Travel in English, and later started managing its Portuguese page. I'm continuously looking for new Portuguese language helpers to help us make the page ev...